Penninic paleogeography from the Western toward the Eastern Alps - Still open questions?

International Geology Review

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 996-1022

  Kurz, Walter ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLYSCH; MICROPLATE; NAPPE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33750717145     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.48.11.996     Document Type: Article

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